The combined Open & Youth was a spectacular event with the best British swimmers aiming to get World championship qualifying times. Plenty of opportunity for the autograph hunters with Hickman, Foster, Parry, Edmonds and Palmer in attendance.
In the Open event, COAST male swimmers held their heads up, particularly in the distance events. Chris Whitcombe and Andy Jameson made the finals in the 400, 800 and 1500m free with Andy also making the 200m final. Chris achieved his Scottish youth time in the 400m. Robert Lang also made the final in the 1500m.
Although they did not make finals - Phillips Lloyd, Ranold Falconer, Gregor Macmillan and Martin Taylor all gave elder opposition a scare.
Marie Jones made the 400 and 800m Free finals for the ladies.
In the Youth events (400m, 200m & 50m only), COAST grabbed a bunch of medals through Phillip Lloyd in the breaststroke, Gregor Macmillan in the fly, Mark Dunford in backcrawl, Iain Tough in 200 and 400 FC, Robbie Renwick in the 200 & 400FC and 200 IM.
Gemma Sutherland came 1st in 200BC and 2nd in 200IM.
Scottish National Age Group Champs - Tollcross July 01
This year the championship were swum as age on the day which created some interesting competition. Overall (by our tally) COAST were the No. 1 team however Tayside proved formidable opposition.
Relays are feature of this competition and we had strength in depth at the 13/14 age group with 3 silvers with the 15/16 band doing well reaching 4 finals and one silver. The 11/12 boys achieved silver in both FS and IM relays.
COAST had many finalists but the outstanding boys swims were from Robbie Renwick who scooped Gold in 400FC, 100 FC and 200 IM, Iain Tough with 2 silver and 2 bronze (8 finals in total), Martyn Taylor with 2 golds and a silver (all FC), Gregor Macmillan with a bronze for 200 Fly and Phillip Lloyd with a silver in 400 IM.
For the Girls, Gemma Sutherland was outstanding and won 3 golds in 400 & 200 IM and 200 BC, silver in 100 BC and bronze in 400 FS. Marie Jones also had an excellent event with 2 silvers (400 & 800FC) and 2 bronze (400 IM and 100 Fly). Kirsten Renwick took bronze in the 400 IM when COAST had 5 finalists.
ASA Age Groups 2001 - Sheffield 29 July - 3 August 2001
We took a team of 16 swimmers and competed in
74 races over 6 days.
This year's competition was very high calibre because of the introduction of
a World Class Performance Programme. Basically this meant that any event
winners were eligible for funding to help towards the costs of training and
equipment - £1200 on offer for age - groups 13 - 16 years. Some events had
> 250 entries.
We had 36 p.b.s from 74 races [ many of the swimmers had just swum their
best times at Tollcross 3 weeks earlier ].
3 swimmers achieved qualifying imes for the Scottish Youth Squad :
Gregor
McMillan 200
fly
Gillian
Robb
200
fc
Gemma
Sutherland 100 fc [
Gemma now has 5 times ]
We won 3 Silver Medals :
Gemma
50
bc
Gemma
100
bc
Martyn
200
fc
in addition the following swimmers made finals or came in the top 8 :
Gemma
4th
100 fc
Gregor
7th
200 fly
Martyn
4th
400 fc
Philip
8th 100 brs
Rebecca
8th
100bc
Iain
8th
200 bc
Ranald
8th
100 fc + 6th
50 bc
19 COAST records were broken by the following swimmers :
Gregor McMillan, Gillian Robb[3], Martyn Taylor, Gemma Sutherland[3], Iain
Tough [2], Tom Lindsay[3], Natalie Fyvie [3], Ranald Falconer and Lucy
Low[2].
New Records
Many fantastic record breaking swims have been made in 2001 by COAST swimmers resulting in over 150 COAST records to date (Nov 30). Note many of the swimmers have broken their own records several times.
10 years
Kerry Harris 100FC (SC), 200 Brs
Simone Prentice 200m FC
11 years
Nicola Shand 100 FC (LC), 100 BRS (LC), 200 BC, 800 FC, 200 IM, 50 Fly
Paul Boef 200 Fly, 200 Brs
12 years
Natalie Fyvie 50 Fly (SC+LC), 100 Fly (LC), 200 Fly (SC + LC), 400 IM (LC), 200 BRS
Adrian O'Neil 50 Fly, 50 Brs, 200 Brs, 200 Fly
Michael Adams 200 Fly (SC)
13 years
Tom Lindsay 100 Fly (LC), 50 BC(LC)
Charlotte Rigden 50 BRS
Debbie Moore 1500m FC
14 years
Gemma Sutherland 50 FC, 100FC, 200 FC (both LC+SC), 50 Fly (LC),50 BC, 100 BC 200BC, (both LC+SC)
Kirsten Renwick 100IM
Iain Tough 50FC (LC), 200 BC (LC+SC)
Ranald Falconer 50 BC (LC), 100 BC (LC)
15 Years
Martin Taylor 50,100,200,400 FC (both LC + SC) 800 FC (LC), 100IM, 200IM (LC)
Phillips Lloyd 50 Fly (SC), 50, 100, 200 BRS (both LC + SC)
Gregor McMillan 50 Fly (LC), 100, 200 Fly (both SC + LC)
Scott Porteous 400 IM (SC)
Gillian Robb 100,200,400,800 (both SC + LC), 50 Fly,100 Fly (SC + LC) 200 Fly
(LC), 50,100,200 BC (LC), 100IM, 200,400 IM (both LC + SC)
Lucy Low 50 Brs (LC), 200 Brs (LC)
16 Years
Marie Jones 100,200,400,800 FC (all SC)
17/ 18
Marc Lafargue 50,100 FC (both SC + LC), 200, 400 IM (LC)
Robert Lang 50, 100, 200 BC (both LC + SC)
Nick Bonsal 50 Brs (LC)
> 18
Andy Jameson 1500m FC, 400m FC, 200m FC